A few years ago, CCTV once played a public welfare short film, a 5-year-old girl who was originally healthy and happy, because of improper medication during a high fever, could no longer hear any sound.
There is also the shocking performance of the 2005 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Thousand Hands Guanyin, you may know that these 21 performers are deaf and mute, but what you don't know is that 18 of them are deaf because of drugs.
Due to improper medication, about 30,000 children in the mainland are trapped in a silent world every year, and countless damage to liver and kidney function and nervous system are caused.
The safety of children's medication should be kept in mind by every parent.
According to the "2016 Children's Drug Safety Survey Report White Paper", 84.9% of parents have safety hazards when giving drugs to their children, mainly in the following ways:
Self-adjustment of the dose of the drug or self-discontinuation of the drug;
Misuse of antibiotics;
Forcing children to take medicine;
Adjust the dose or stop the drug on your own
Children are not miniature adults, and the dosage is not half open to adults.
Many parents adjust the dosage of their children's medications according to their own experience or from others.
However, as a parent, it should be clear that the amount of medicine is less than it should play its due role, and the amount of more may cause poisoning.
Many medications are controlled based on your child's weight.
For example, children's lung heat clear granules, is a common drug for acute bronchitis in children, clear the lungs and dissolve phlegm, its dosage needs special attention, according to the different symptoms of children, different weight, the amount to be taken is also different.
Parents can not be afraid of trouble, feel free to increase or decrease the amount of medicine for their children, and if they need to be accurately weighed, they must be weighed and fed separately.
Some parents will watch the child's symptoms disappear, stop the drug on their own, the child's body is not as strong as the adult's resistance, after the symptoms disappear does not mean that the disease is really cured, must be re-examined, or take a few days of medicine to consolidate it.
Abuse of antibiotics
Some parents see that their children have colds, fevers, and coughs, and they feel that there is inflammation, and they use antibiotics to reduce inflammation.
Some parents have heard of the various side effects of antibiotics, and even if the doctor prescribes antibiotics, they are particularly resistant to not wanting to use them for their children.
It should be noted that antibiotics are antibacterial drugs, if the cold is triggered by sensitive bacteria, there is no problem with antibiotics, but if it is not caused by bacteria, it is caused by viruses, and antibiotics will not play a great role.
Be sure to identify the cause of your child's illness before deciding whether to use antibiotics.
Force your child to take medicine
Some children are particularly resistant to taking medicine, how to feed it can not be fed, and some even spit it out.
At this time, many parents will forcibly inject medicine, pinch their noses while controlling their hands and feet, and force them into it.
One of the dangers of this is that the child is easy to choke, and once the drug is not completely dissolved, the drug choking into the respiratory tract can easily cause suffocation.
In fact, many drugs are now very humane, such as propionic acid soxathamycin granules, which are strawberry flavored, and the powder on the pill box is also painted with strawberries.
Communicate with your child more before feeding the medicine, and try not to force the medicine.
How to give your child medication correctly?
Feeding your child medicine is an important job and challenging for those who care for them, so be aware of these points:
Confirm the dose and frequency of taking the drug
After the doctor prescribes the drug, be sure to ask what the amount of medicine is each time and how long the interval is. Whether to eat before, during, or after a meal. Some medicines need to be taken before meals, and some need to be taken 30 minutes after meals.
If the dosage prescribed by the doctor is different from the dosage on the instructions, be sure to confirm with the doctor, do not choose one by yourself, and then give it to the child after confirmation.
Proper storage of the drug
Children's medication is best put alone, those that need to be refrigerated should be refrigerated, and those that avoid direct sunlight should be placed in a cool place.
It is best to prepare a separate medicine box and keep it out of your child's reach.
Take the full course of treatment
Do not decide on your own whether the child can stop the drug, follow the doctor's advice, do not eat 8 days if you need to eat 10 days, especially antibiotic drugs, you must eat enough time to completely kill the bacteria, otherwise it is easy to repeat, after repeated, the child's body will produce drug resistance, follow-up treatment will be more difficult.